Author: László Polgár
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 9781579129507
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Win at chess with practical instruction from one of the world's leading teachers! With clever strategies for more than 5000 situations and clear diagrams, Chess is for the enthusiastic novice as well as the competitor taking the game to the next level. Chess takes you through more than 5,000 unique instructional situations, many taken from actual matches, including 306 problems for checkmate in one move, 3,412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 144 simple endgames, and 128 tournament game combinations. Organized by problem type, each combination, or game is keyed to an easy-to-follow solution at the back of the book.. More than 6,000 illustrations make it easy to see the possibilities regardless of where your pieces are on the board. The book also includes the basic rules of the game and an international bibliography. Chess is the ultimate book on winning the game.
Chess
Author: László Polgár
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 9781579129507
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Win at chess with practical instruction from one of the world's leading teachers! With clever strategies for more than 5000 situations and clear diagrams, Chess is for the enthusiastic novice as well as the competitor taking the game to the next level. Chess takes you through more than 5,000 unique instructional situations, many taken from actual matches, including 306 problems for checkmate in one move, 3,412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 144 simple endgames, and 128 tournament game combinations. Organized by problem type, each combination, or game is keyed to an easy-to-follow solution at the back of the book.. More than 6,000 illustrations make it easy to see the possibilities regardless of where your pieces are on the board. The book also includes the basic rules of the game and an international bibliography. Chess is the ultimate book on winning the game.
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 9781579129507
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Win at chess with practical instruction from one of the world's leading teachers! With clever strategies for more than 5000 situations and clear diagrams, Chess is for the enthusiastic novice as well as the competitor taking the game to the next level. Chess takes you through more than 5,000 unique instructional situations, many taken from actual matches, including 306 problems for checkmate in one move, 3,412 mates in two moves, 744 mates in three moves, 144 simple endgames, and 128 tournament game combinations. Organized by problem type, each combination, or game is keyed to an easy-to-follow solution at the back of the book.. More than 6,000 illustrations make it easy to see the possibilities regardless of where your pieces are on the board. The book also includes the basic rules of the game and an international bibliography. Chess is the ultimate book on winning the game.
How to Force Checkmate
Author: Fred Reinfeld
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486204390
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
300 diagrammed positions, subdivided into situations of mate in one, two, or three moves, introduce you to a vast array of checkmate situations. For study, as entertainment during leisure moments or travel (you need no board), this book will help end your games with a brilliant touch.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486204390
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
300 diagrammed positions, subdivided into situations of mate in one, two, or three moves, introduce you to a vast array of checkmate situations. For study, as entertainment during leisure moments or travel (you need no board), this book will help end your games with a brilliant touch.
Checkmate! Ideas for Students
Author: John A. Bain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963961433
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963961433
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate
Author: Fred Reinfeld
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1936490838
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
A 21st-Century Edition of a Great Checkmate Collection! Ask most chessplayers from the “baby boomer” generation how they acquired and sharpened their tactical skills, and chances are a Fred Reinfeld tactics collection will be part of their answer. And now, for the first time, 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate is available in modern algebraic notation. This may be the all-time great checkmate collection, with forced checkmate positions culled mainly from actual play. And Reinfeld's selection is simply marvelous, touching on all the important tactical themes. In short, this is an outstanding book to hone your tactical abilities. It will help you recognize mating patterns, develop visualization skills, enhance imagination, and improve tactical sharpness. And now, with a modern 21st-century edition of this great checkmate collection finally available, there is no excuse for not only improving your tactical skills, but also enjoying yourself along the way.
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1936490838
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
A 21st-Century Edition of a Great Checkmate Collection! Ask most chessplayers from the “baby boomer” generation how they acquired and sharpened their tactical skills, and chances are a Fred Reinfeld tactics collection will be part of their answer. And now, for the first time, 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate is available in modern algebraic notation. This may be the all-time great checkmate collection, with forced checkmate positions culled mainly from actual play. And Reinfeld's selection is simply marvelous, touching on all the important tactical themes. In short, this is an outstanding book to hone your tactical abilities. It will help you recognize mating patterns, develop visualization skills, enhance imagination, and improve tactical sharpness. And now, with a modern 21st-century edition of this great checkmate collection finally available, there is no excuse for not only improving your tactical skills, but also enjoying yourself along the way.
Outrageous Chess Problems
Author: Burt Hochberg
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402719097
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"[It's] enough to drive experienced chess players to insanity, but they will enjoy the ride....The author warns the reader from the start anything goes....Buy this book...and have fun!"--Games It's outrageous and amazing and irresistible: these brainbusting chess problems are the devilish inventions of the world's greatest puzzle creators. Chess mavens won't believe what they'll find, because in these games, the usual rules just don't apply. For example, there's Billiards Chess, where pieces can carom off the board at a right angle and return. In Checkless Chess, check is an illegal move...unless it's checkmate. Refusal Chess allows a player to refuse an opponent's move and demand an alternative. There's even a variation called Collaboration, in which both sides must cooperate to achieve checkmate. And, the coup de grace: the world's hardest chess problem ever posed.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402719097
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"[It's] enough to drive experienced chess players to insanity, but they will enjoy the ride....The author warns the reader from the start anything goes....Buy this book...and have fun!"--Games It's outrageous and amazing and irresistible: these brainbusting chess problems are the devilish inventions of the world's greatest puzzle creators. Chess mavens won't believe what they'll find, because in these games, the usual rules just don't apply. For example, there's Billiards Chess, where pieces can carom off the board at a right angle and return. In Checkless Chess, check is an illegal move...unless it's checkmate. Refusal Chess allows a player to refuse an opponent's move and demand an alternative. There's even a variation called Collaboration, in which both sides must cooperate to achieve checkmate. And, the coup de grace: the world's hardest chess problem ever posed.
The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486482014
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Join Holmes and Watson as they examine interrupted games to deduce prior moves. A series of increasingly complex chess mysteries culminates in a double murder perpetrated by Professor Moriarty. The master sleuth instructs his companion (and us) in the intricacies of retrograde analysis; readers need only a knowledge of how the pieces move.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486482014
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Join Holmes and Watson as they examine interrupted games to deduce prior moves. A series of increasingly complex chess mysteries culminates in a double murder perpetrated by Professor Moriarty. The master sleuth instructs his companion (and us) in the intricacies of retrograde analysis; readers need only a knowledge of how the pieces move.
Mastering Mates
Author: Jon Edwards
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1936490978
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Train Your Brain to Recognize Checkmates! This first book in the Mastering Mate series presents a challenge for players relatively new to chess and for readers seeking a novel and interesting set of puzzles. Books on chess tactics can overwhelm beginners and young learners. These relatively simple, carefully chosen exercises serve to illustrate the wide variety of examples of checkmate, as well as showing off the harmonious cooperation of chess pieces delivering the final blow. You will certainly learn what checkmate is and how to deliver it. And you will learn how chess pieces can coordinate their influence on the board. Every one of the 1,111 positions in this book is from an actual game. Each position has a single, unique solution. And all of the solutions have been carefully checked. Most of these problems are relatively easy, but not all of them! Indeed, many involve solutions are not completely obvious. In fact, some of the masters who played these games actually missed the mates! With Mastering Mates 1, you will fine tune your checkmate radar, with greater success and enjoyment of the royal game sure to follow!
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1936490978
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Train Your Brain to Recognize Checkmates! This first book in the Mastering Mate series presents a challenge for players relatively new to chess and for readers seeking a novel and interesting set of puzzles. Books on chess tactics can overwhelm beginners and young learners. These relatively simple, carefully chosen exercises serve to illustrate the wide variety of examples of checkmate, as well as showing off the harmonious cooperation of chess pieces delivering the final blow. You will certainly learn what checkmate is and how to deliver it. And you will learn how chess pieces can coordinate their influence on the board. Every one of the 1,111 positions in this book is from an actual game. Each position has a single, unique solution. And all of the solutions have been carefully checked. Most of these problems are relatively easy, but not all of them! Indeed, many involve solutions are not completely obvious. In fact, some of the masters who played these games actually missed the mates! With Mastering Mates 1, you will fine tune your checkmate radar, with greater success and enjoyment of the royal game sure to follow!
Mate in One Move
Author: Natarajan M
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
If you are a beginner, you should practice much to mate in one move. This book provides excellent material for this training. It will improve your chess game and endgame play. 500 Puzzles with answers can write answers on book beginner friendly diagrams
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
If you are a beginner, you should practice much to mate in one move. This book provides excellent material for this training. It will improve your chess game and endgame play. 500 Puzzles with answers can write answers on book beginner friendly diagrams
One Move Chess By The Champions
Author: Bruce Pandolfini
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 9780671606084
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now you can match wits with world chess champions using this guide to key chess strategies—from America’s leading chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit. Since 1886, the world chess champion has been determined every few years in dramatic head-to-head competitions. From Steinetz to Karpov, the twelve men who have held the title have shared a desire to succeed and a stunning ability to translate this desire into that most definitive and triumphant of moves—checkmate! You'll discover suspenseful, one-move problems that capture an average of ten games per player in the moment just before the victory-forcing play. Presented in an easy-to-use, interactive format that includes over 100 individual diagrams, the moves are arranged in order of difficulty—from beginning to advanced. Champions include: Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Steinetz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, Botvinnik Invaluable commentary, analysis, and historical information on each champion make this a book that will provide hours of stimulating and enjoyable entertainment for years to come!
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 9780671606084
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now you can match wits with world chess champions using this guide to key chess strategies—from America’s leading chess coach and game strategist for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit. Since 1886, the world chess champion has been determined every few years in dramatic head-to-head competitions. From Steinetz to Karpov, the twelve men who have held the title have shared a desire to succeed and a stunning ability to translate this desire into that most definitive and triumphant of moves—checkmate! You'll discover suspenseful, one-move problems that capture an average of ten games per player in the moment just before the victory-forcing play. Presented in an easy-to-use, interactive format that includes over 100 individual diagrams, the moves are arranged in order of difficulty—from beginning to advanced. Champions include: Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Steinetz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, Botvinnik Invaluable commentary, analysis, and historical information on each champion make this a book that will provide hours of stimulating and enjoyable entertainment for years to come!
1000 Best Short Games of Chess
Author: Irving Chernev
Publisher: Ishi Press
ISBN: 9784871875745
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Perhaps if you owned one of the four or five great chess libraries of the world, you could, by diligent search, find most or all of these delectable nuggets. But who has either the time or the assets. So, Mr. Chernev, who has both, has provided us here with 1000 of the sweetest sugar-coated pills in all chess literature. Each introduced with a brief, pungent or witty commentary. Chess brevities have always exercised a special attraction for lovers of the royal game. It may be well that we welcome the punishment inexorably meted out for some trifling slip. Maybe it's out inherent sadism that makes us enjoy the spectacle of speedy punishment doled out to someone else, just as a fight fan thrills to a one-round knockout. Perhaps it's only our inherent laziness after all, to play over a brevity, one often need not bother to set up the pieces. Be that is it may, its popularity is universal. And here are the best of them, gathered together in one volume, for your pleasure and enjoyment. Many of us know instances galore of beginners becoming a cropper after only a few moves through the "scholar's mate" or some other absurdity not necessarily so primitive. Yet it would be quite wrong to assume that only duffers suffer the ignominy of a speedy knockout. The victim may well be a famous master, as you will discover to your surprise, delight and, most of all, your deep, deep satisfaction. After all, if Morphy can be mated in 12 moves, Capablanca defeated in 13, and Lasker blitzed in 14, who are we to hide our heads in shame?
Publisher: Ishi Press
ISBN: 9784871875745
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Perhaps if you owned one of the four or five great chess libraries of the world, you could, by diligent search, find most or all of these delectable nuggets. But who has either the time or the assets. So, Mr. Chernev, who has both, has provided us here with 1000 of the sweetest sugar-coated pills in all chess literature. Each introduced with a brief, pungent or witty commentary. Chess brevities have always exercised a special attraction for lovers of the royal game. It may be well that we welcome the punishment inexorably meted out for some trifling slip. Maybe it's out inherent sadism that makes us enjoy the spectacle of speedy punishment doled out to someone else, just as a fight fan thrills to a one-round knockout. Perhaps it's only our inherent laziness after all, to play over a brevity, one often need not bother to set up the pieces. Be that is it may, its popularity is universal. And here are the best of them, gathered together in one volume, for your pleasure and enjoyment. Many of us know instances galore of beginners becoming a cropper after only a few moves through the "scholar's mate" or some other absurdity not necessarily so primitive. Yet it would be quite wrong to assume that only duffers suffer the ignominy of a speedy knockout. The victim may well be a famous master, as you will discover to your surprise, delight and, most of all, your deep, deep satisfaction. After all, if Morphy can be mated in 12 moves, Capablanca defeated in 13, and Lasker blitzed in 14, who are we to hide our heads in shame?